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Startup company uses flawed software-development contract with outside consultant, ends up having to go to court to stay alive

July 29, 2009

It’s not an uncommon tale: A startup company hired a software programmer as an independent consultant. The company paid the consultant some $370,000 over three years as part of a $6 million overall development effort. [EDIT: The startup also granted shares of its stock to the consultant.] Eventually, the company started to run out of money [...]

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